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throwaway_jack··on My review of Dockercon Europe 14
my employer was kind enough to send me and while I enjoyed most of it I'm sorry but I feel the urge to nitpick:

> the organization was perfect

was really not considering this wasn't a free event/meetup and had plenty of big sponsors.

Sessions got delayed by 10/15/20 even 30 minutes continuously, including the opening and closing keynotes on day 1 and 2 (!!). On day 2 it was very disappointing to show up on time in the morning and being prevented from even entering the room because all of a sudden the keynote was going to start 30 minutes late (which was really more like 40).

The main room had a ridiculous single file entrance/exit, food was ok on day 1 but disappointing on day 2 (little sandwiches). Lots of noise coming from regular visitor to the museum and even from people just walking past the venue since the main room had glass walls directly to the outside.

Also having day 2 on a national holiday with lots of families visiting the museum wasn't a great idea re noise.

As I mentioned: I'm nitpicking but it had to be said

throwaway_jack··on Ask HN: Selling a conference – how do you value it?
selling it as in I won't organise it anymore and they will from now on. I won't have anything to do with it and they will do as they please.